Extra cash in CNE funds explained

Principals working to lower supply fees

4:15 PM,
Nov. 20, 2013

Clermont Northeastern Elementary students Nidal Nassar, left, Robin Blanton, center, and Nathan Dunford paint during an art class. Supplies for this class and others can cost parents up to $84 per elementary student, according to school estimates. This has led some to question the amount of money in the district's building support funds.

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In the wake of Clermont Northeastern's supply list revelations, which the vice president of the school board said "shocked" him, a few eyebrows were raised about the amount of money in the district's building support funds.

The school estimates supply fees for the elementary school can get as high as $84 per student.

In seventh grade, each student is required to buy two boxes of tissues, a roll of paper towels, a pack of construction paper, a ream of copy paper, a calculator, pens, pencils, erasers, colored pencils and highlighters - among other items. ...